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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the setting and the content of that remark last week advanced a tantalizing and serious game that might be called seek-and-hide. The President was addressing a luncheon of 80 former political directors of his national campaigns, and the very fact that he had called them together in Washington provided a new indication that he will seek a second term. But his wording constituted another example of his determination to hide that intention, at least in the sense of formal public announcement, until the moment of maximum political advantage-which, some of his aides have begun to hint...
Behind this face is a restless, ambitious spirit. She is not content with being merely a model, only an actress; she demands a kind of Renaissance celebrity. Isabella Rossellini, for example, could have decided to coast through gossip pages as the gorgeous daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian Film Master Roberto Rossellini. Instead she has become a journalist, a television performer, a film actress and, on a whim, one of the fashion world's most sought-after models. Joanna Pacula rose quickly through the disciplines of theater, film and TV acting in her native Poland; now she has the female...
...sports fan's adaptability to different time zones. There is something spiritually dislocating, even depraved, about football in May. Still, Homo sapiens has adjusted to the idea of having ice hockey's Stanley Cup playoffs proceed at their glacial pace through the same month, so perhaps the content of seasons is just a matter of habit. When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount movable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of night and day and even the terrestrial seasons. If he wished such special effects, he could probably conjure up an occasional blizzard...
...aforementioned "Jewish-Nazi collaboration" and, as Mr. Kurzman does point out, "that it was the Israelis who blew up the American Embassy in Beirut." Why did not Mr. Kurzman include some more of Rahman's anti-Jewish statements and outright falsehoods to give a truer sense of the content of the speech...
Until the group can determine its exact relationship with the individual student governments, it will probably have to remain content with its status as an advisory body...